Month: January 2023

As I mentioned in my previous blog, I was planning to rest in Playa Buenaventura. Because the restaurant in Playa Buenaventura is closed over the weekends, I decided to move on and ride to Mulege.

The ride was not long, there was no wind to write about 😀 and the sceneries were fantastic, as nice as the best segments of Croatia! Wow. Life was great.

I stopped at a roadside restaurant for brunch, I had an excellent Mexican omelette.
At the restaurant I ran into a snowbird couple from Bend, OR. They did a bike tour in jeans together in 1989 from Vancouver, BC to Tijuana, BCN. It went well for them, they got along well and they got married after the tour. Here they are a few decades later still together and smiling. Amazing!

I arrived in Mulege relatively early. I checked out a room in one hotel, I didn’t like it so much. I moved on. With the help of Google I found a small rustic hotel which I liked. I checked in, took a shower, had a beer, etc.

It was a good day.

This blog includes images from Loreto. I already provided some information about Loreto in the introduction section.

This was a long hard day on the bike. The total distance was 58 miles. However, the difficulty was not the distance but the headwind. I think I averaged just 9.3 mph. I stopped at a nice roadside restaurant to have a great lunch and refill water. This really helped me a lot. I went over some hills and rode on flats also. The nicest part was towards the end when I could see Bahia Concepcion and enjoy the views.

I reached Playa Buenaventura just a little bit after 4 to find out that the restaurant closed at 4. However, I was still able to secure lodging and one of the nice local residents gave me a bowl of soup with some bread and water. I was also able to get some beer from the restaurant, even though it was after hours. Since the restaurant was closed over the weekend, my plans for a rest day at Playa Buenaventura had to change. I decided to continue the next day to Mulege.

After I decided to stay another day in Loreto I thought it would be a good idea to get on the bike and do a day trip. I picked mission San Javier because of its proximity and popularity in Loreto. The proximity part didn’t exactly work out with the bike. It was quite a difficult climb. I saw 14% and once even a 15% gradient on my Garmin. But the views were spectacular and the mission was also very nice. I had a great lunch in the restaurant by the mission. I refilled my water and I headed back down. The ride down was fun and once again, the views really paid me back for all the hard work going up the hill.